American Politics

[Cali Guy]

Agree with your assessment one hundred percent although I don't think the Ice cream man will open up the American oil industry. I offer one plausible reason. He's pushing the Green Deal, getting us into electric vehicles, he doesn't have to try passing any budget to accomplish it. You make the fuel unaffordable and combustion cars will soon disappear by attrition. They did say yesterday they will tap the strategic reserve, which is nothing just a drop in the bucket!

Let's go Brandon!

He won't open up drilling because that is the intelligent thing to do. Expanding drilling in USA kills Russia. Lowers oil prices. Reduces inflation. Biden is to stupid to actually do something that helps Americans.

[Cali Guy]

You think wrong.

Trump loves Putin.

Golfinho loves Putin.

A huge chunk of GOP (15% actually) view Putin favorably. So, how about you stop talking for all Americans, huh?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ing-democrats/

But I'm glad, you've finally spoken. So far we've got a 1-1 draw.

Come on trumpers, don't be shy. Make your feelings known.

Why do you keep fabricated lies? You provide absolutely no proof of anything you said and they are complete lies.

[The Cane]

I heard from a commentator on the above-referenced show the real and true reason for why Putin felt emboldened to act at this time. It's because democracy in the United States is as weak as its ever been. And whose fault is that? Hmmm? Anybody remember who inspired January 6th? Think it's that same guy on his knees in front of Putin.

[Golfinho]

"Signed and then didn't follow thru on the Minsk Agreement."
Ukraine has never had and does not currently have a nuclear weapons development plan. What they did do, however, was trade away their Russian-developed nukes for a bunch of worthless paper guarantees. In fact, in 1993, a paper was published that took the position that if Ukraine did that, they would be open for invasion by.


Russia. https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-conte...-Deterrent.pdf.

A Mearsheimer article from 1993! You must be a real fan. How'd you like his book on The Israeli Lobby? That one was really popular.

Surely you've kept up with his work and seen this one from 2015: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4.

[PVMonger]

Please see the picture. It is the real reason why Putin didn't invade when the one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy was president.

[PVMonger]

To have enacted sanctions "weeks ago" before Putin made a move would have been falling right into Putin's obvious trap and fueled his publicly proclaimed lamebrain, fabricated reasons for invading Ukraine:

"Waa waaaa everybody is so mean to poor widdle me Putin! Look! Now that bad ol' Biden is imposing sanctions for doing nothing! Enemies, enemies everywhere. Got to invade Ukraine now to strengthen our position against Russia's enemies always picking on me"!

You haven't been paying attention. Thank god, Biden and his team have been.

In fact, everything Biden and our intel predicted Putin would do, they got it right, including his repeated false flag, made up attacks on him that forced him to pull this shit.

To have punished him for doing something. Before he did it would have been the only fairly genuine claim that "those bad ol' putty tats started it" on the world stage.

Dumb, dumb, dumb idea.

But the fascists in the crowd are too dim-witted to understand. They believe that is OK to punish their kids before they've actually done something wrong. Just like they believe that killing Black people is OK because they are eventually going to screw up. Just like, oh hell, there are just too many analogies and I'm tired of typing.

[PVMonger]

You are having a reading comprehension problem. There is no discussion regarding 1993, nuclear development program, or whatever fantasies are flitting around in your head. The issue is now. Former comedian, now President of Ukraine courtesy and inheritor of the Maidan uprising Zelensky declared that Ukraine ought to have some nuclear weapons. How would you suppose the Russians would react to that?

Worthless paper guarantees department, reality version: NATO not one inch to the East!

Saying that Ukraine ought to have nuclear weapons doesn't mean he actually has them. Just like your boy trump saying that Google was working on a testing website didn't mean that Google was actually doing that.

[Golfinho]

Point out failings of Senile POTUS and partisans who can only understand things in the most simplistic concepts assume you are not one of them and attack with name calling. The reality is that neither Senile POTUS or The Accidental POTUS is running American foreign policy on behalf of the American People. So what if Germans get fueled from Russia? Instead of shipping American liquified natural gas across an ocean, it can stay on the domestic market where it can lessen our fuel costs.

What are the people who run foreign policy for the current Senile POTUS really trying to accomplish? War is diplomacy by other means. What are the premises of US foreign policy? Let's let The Only Economist Who Matters, the legend himself, Dr. Michael Hudson explain it for us:

https://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/a...-other-allies/

[Xpartan]

I would think everyone in America hates Putin.

You think wrong.

Trump loves Putin.

Golfinho loves Putin.

A huge chunk of GOP (15% actually) view Putin favorably. So, how about you stop talking for all Americans, huh?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ing-democrats/

But I'm glad, you've finally spoken. So far we've got a 1-1 draw.

Come on trumpers, don't be shy. Make your feelings known.

[Xpartan]

Thanks for reminding us how much weakness Putin saw in Trump when Putin conducted "the most successful cyber infiltration of USA Government and corporate institutions in history" on his watch.

Trump administration officially says huge hack was likely Russian espionage

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1252882

Might as well add the weakness Putin saw in GW Bush when he invaded Georgia on his watch.

And the weakness Saddam Hussein saw in Bush1 when he invaded Kuwait on his watch.

Oh, how about the weakness the Hezbollah saw in Reagan when they bombed the USA barracks in Beirut on his watch? Boy, they really got that one right. Nobody saw a USA Commander in Chief turn tail and run faster from the fight before or since. Anti American Jihadists certainly learned a lesson about the value of attacking Americans with bombs to get their way after that one.

Ho Chi Minh saw weakness in Eisenhower when he conducted "the peoples war" on South Vietnam and invaded Laos on his watch.

Yeah, I guess Germany saw weakness in FDR when they invaded Poland on his watch. Same with the Japanese when they bombed Pearl Harbor.

Any point in going on with this line of non reasoning?

Ok, at least one more for good measure; how weak must the South have seen Lincoln in 1860? Wow.

LOL. Trump bragged about how that wouldn't have happened on his watch too! Of course there would have been no Civil War on his watch. He would have signed an unconditional surrender on Jefferson Davis' timeline and terms like he did with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Biden's weakness, my ass.

As opposed to Trump's "Putin is genius" and "Oh, that's wonderful" strength, LOL.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/polit...tin/index.html

Crackpots will be crackpots.

[The Cane]

Thanks for reminding us how much weakness Putin saw in Trump when Putin conducted "the most successful cyber infiltration of USA Government and corporate institutions in history" on his watch.

Trump administration officially says huge hack was likely Russian espionage

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1252882

Might as well add the weakness Putin saw in GW Bush when he invaded Georgia on his watch.

And the weakness Saddam Hussein saw in Bush1 when he invaded Kuwait on his watch.

Oh, how about the weakness the Hezbollah saw in Reagan when they bombed the USA barracks in Beirut on his watch? Boy, they really got that one right. Nobody saw a USA Commander in Chief turn tail and run faster from the fight before or since. Anti American Jihadists certainly learned a lesson about the value of attacking Americans with bombs to get their way after that one.

Ho Chi Minh saw weakness in Eisenhower when he conducted "the peoples war" on South Vietnam and invaded Laos on his watch.

Yeah, I guess Germany saw weakness in FDR when they invaded Poland on his watch. Same with the Japanese when they bombed Pearl Harbor..

Touche! LOLOLOL!

[Golfinho]

Ukraine has never had and does not currently have a nuclear weapons development plan. What they did do, however, was trade away their Russian-developed nukes for a bunch of worthless paper guarantees.

You are having a reading comprehension problem. There is no discussion regarding 1993, nuclear development program, or whatever fantasies are flitting around in your head. The issue is now. Former comedian, now President of Ukraine courtesy and inheritor of the Maidan uprising Zelensky declared that Ukraine ought to have some nuclear weapons. How would you suppose the Russians would react to that?

Worthless paper guarantees department, reality version: NATO not one inch to the East!

[EihTooms]

You're surely Jest right? I'll answer point by point.

Invasion of the US. He's already doing it and US now braces for more. Think Cyber security.

Invading a NATO Country: Uncle Joe is a politician, Putin's an Intelligence man. Two different thinking dynamics. Putin knows the smell of blood. Back in 2014 when the US president was preoccupied with releasing terrorist, exchanging 5 terrorist to one traitor, bending over to kiss royal hands or dividing the country, Putin Invaded Crimea. Who was the president then? Yeah him with Biden as VP. Like another poster said, the Orange Man or whatever you want to call him kept Putin at bay. Putin didn't change his stripes but knew the response will be different then. Now he smelled blood again and took the opportunity. Let me introduce an article by Politico nonetheless. A left leaning outlet. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...long-00011555. Note there's a comment about China too as I posted in one of my previous posts.

Thanks for reminding us how much weakness Putin saw in Trump when Putin conducted "the most successful cyber infiltration of USA Government and corporate institutions in history" on his watch.

Trump administration officially says huge hack was likely Russian espionage

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1252882

The Trump administration issued an official announcement Tuesday saying Russian agents carried out what may have been the most successful cyber infiltration of U.S. government and corporate institutions in history.

Might as well add the weakness Putin saw in GW Bush when he invaded Georgia on his watch.

And the weakness Saddam Hussein saw in Bush1 when he invaded Kuwait on his watch.

Oh, how about the weakness the Hezbollah saw in Reagan when they bombed the USA barracks in Beirut on his watch? Boy, they really got that one right. Nobody saw a USA Commander in Chief turn tail and run faster from the fight before or since. Anti American Jihadists certainly learned a lesson about the value of attacking Americans with bombs to get their way after that one.

Ho Chi Minh saw weakness in Eisenhower when he conducted "the peoples war" on South Vietnam and invaded Laos on his watch.

Yeah, I guess Germany saw weakness in FDR when they invaded Poland on his watch. Same with the Japanese when they bombed Pearl Harbor.

Any point in going on with this line of non reasoning?

Ok, at least one more for good measure; how weak must the South have seen Lincoln in 1860? Wow.

LOL. Trump bragged about how that wouldn't have happened on his watch too! Of course there would have been no Civil War on his watch. He would have signed an unconditional surrender on Jefferson Davis' timeline and terms like he did with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

[The Cane]

https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/23/p...dictabilities/

It's "hear, hear." If you can't get the simple things right, how can you possibly comprehend complicated geopolitical issues?

[PVMonger]

You been cooking on another planet the past seven years, eh shlome?

Since the two Donbas Republics declared themselves independent in like 2014, the Kiev regime has been all over them, signed and then didn't follow thru on the Minsk Agreement, took arms from the NATO forces, and who knows what else, and then publicly floated the idea of becoming nuclear armed. All the meanwhile shelling Donetsk and Lugansk. It sure took Putin long enough to get around to solving the problem.

"Signed and then didn't follow thru on the Minsk Agreement." Really? "A major blockage has been Russia's insistence that it is not a party to the conflict and therefore is not bound by its terms." But, sure, let's blame Kyiv. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ct-2022-02-21/.

Ukraine has never had and does not currently have a nuclear weapons development plan. What they did do, however, was trade away their Russian-developed nukes for a bunch of worthless paper guarantees. In fact, in 1993, a paper was published that took the position that if Ukraine did that, they would be open for invasion by.

Russia. https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-conte...-Deterrent.pdf.